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There’s no doubt in my mind that this will pass:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate majority leader said Sunday he supported a proposed constitutional amendment to ban homosexual marriage in the United States.
Why? Even California passed this as a ballot proposition, and if it passes here it passes everywhere. Now I know the critics will [...]
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Number 2 Pencil is alive and well and off blogspot.
Dean Esmay’s good works are sure to win him in place in Archive Heaven.
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- June 30th
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Lost in the court hoopla last week was an important Supreme Court ruling Stogner v. California striking down a California law termed the “Early Inheritance Act” by critics. This law, pushed by therapists cashing-in on coercive techniques enabling them to implant false memories of childhood sex abuse, Satanic Ritual Abuse, or whatever was handy, sent [...]
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With a cryptic note, the lights are out at Scripting News:
The lack of support, even name-calling, from people who think of themselves as my friend, has got me thinking that maybe this isn’t worth it. And the abuse from others, bordering on cruelty, is intolerable.
Is this related to the recent flap on RSS validators? Whatever’s [...]
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All the legal pundits commenting on the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Texas sodomy law have missed the point of the case entirely, they’re so hung up on privacy rights, federalism, and equal protection.
This wasn’t a case about law, it was the kick-off event in the race to replace the retiring Rehnquist as chief justice. [...]
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Sad-sack Governor Gray Davis hopes he can intimidate the voters into letting him stay in power to further fatten special interest bellies:
Sacramento — Opponents of the move to recall Gov. Gray Davis are asking their supporters to intimidate signature gatherers and complain of harassment at stores where recall petitions are circulating, stepping up the political [...]
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Unstrung reports that another WiFi chip company is bucks-up and ready to ship:
Bermai’s first round of funding, for $21 million, came in March 2002. “We sized our ‘A’ [round] just about perfectly. We got orders just before we ran out of ‘A’ money,” Sanguinetti says.
As the line at the trough gets longer and more of [...]
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So the consolidation is starting, according to rumors on the acquisition of Intersil by TI:
Wireless LAN chipset vendor Intersil Corp.’s (Nasdaq: ISIL – message board) stock was up today on rumors that the company is going to be acquired by Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN – message board).
TI is renown as a great second-source manufacturer, [...]
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John Burton wants to put a band-aid on the California budget mess:
Senate President Pro Tem John Burton (D-San Francisco) said passing a spending plan with Band-Aids offers the best hope of freeing up lawmakers to deal with the budget’s structural problems in time to bring proposals before voters.
“It is like you have a patient with [...]
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This Observer story on a divorced father’s struggle with fascist judges and a vindictive ex-wife (Ten-year hell is over for a loving father) is making the rounds today, and it’s pretty shocking:
Mark Harris has made 130 court appearances in 10 years, before 33 judges. He has picketed judges’ houses and spent more than three months [...]